Demethylated Quotes & Sayings

And I would like current or future politicians to make sure every avenue of diplomacy, and what you have, are exhausted before sending young men and women off to death and serious injury. — Tomas Young

Sharon had seen a penis, but it was her brother's so it didn't count. Carol was the only girl in our group who had touched a real one....Carol said the penis felt like eyelid skin. Could that be right? For weeks after she told us, I would brush a finger over the skin above my eye and I would marvel that something that was made of boy could be so silky and fine, like tissue paper. — Allison Pearson

Someone told me at the beginning of that summer that I would come face-to-face with death because of a Romeo and Juliet romance, I would never have believed it. But it wasn't like that summer went at all like I had planned in the first place. The Columbia recruiter sat across from me, her dark bushy eyebrows rising as high as they could go while she stared down at my application. "So, Alex, I see that you don't have any extracurricular activities." I shrugged. I was sitting in one of those uncomfortable orange plastic chairs in the guidance counselor's office, wishing I could just disappear. I was the first student in all of Winnebago High School's history to have a recruiter from an Ivy League school visit. By the way she looked at our tiny school with its ancient, chipped walls and rusted lockers, I could see why nobody had wanted to visit in the past. — Magan Vernon

The peach-bud glows, the wild bee hums, and wind-flowers wave in graceful gladness. — Lucy Larcom

He rubbed at his chin. I think we're going to have to add a no eavesdropping clause to the house rules. We might have to take out the no sex thing though. — Karina Halle

The one thing that I have done really well in my life is be a father. — Peter Jennings

Character. Intelligence. Strength. Style. That makes beauty. — Diane Von Furstenberg

As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language. — Albert J. Nock

Cervantes is the most important Spanish writer. But he is not the most representative of the Spanish. His irony, his sense of humor - they are too subtle to seem Spanish. — Antonio Munoz Molina

If we cannot live and work alongside people with whom we deeply disagree, we are finished as a liberal society. — Mary Katharine Ham

And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained. — Leo Tolstoy

When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I complete that novel I return to the earlier novel and rewrite much of it. In the meantime the second novel lies in a desk drawer. — Joyce Carol Oates

PL/1, the fatal disease, belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set. — Edsger Dijkstra